Fireman Apprentice Patrick Roy Mystery Cache
Fireman Apprentice Patrick Roy
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Part of the Remember the U.S.S. Cole Series.
On October 12, 2000, USS Cole (DDG 67), under the command of Commander Kirk Lippold, set in to Aden harbor for a routine fuel stop. Cole completed mooring at 09:30. Refueling started at 10:30. Around 11:18 local time (08:18 UTC), a small craft approached the port side of the destroyer, and an explosion occurred, putting a 35-by-36-foot gash in the ship's port side. The blast hit the ship's galley, where crew were lining up for lunch. Seventeen sailors were killed and thirty nine others were injured in the blast.
Among the killed was Fireman Apprentice Patrick Roy. Roy was from Keedysville, MD located near Sharpsburg, MD. After being returned to the U.S. Patrick Roy was interred in Antietam National Cemetery, which has been officially closed to burials since the Korean War.
The National Park Service agreed to make the exception after receiving requests from Vice President Al Gore's office and from state legislators on behalf of the family of Fireman Apprentice Patrick Roy, an Antietam National Cemetery official said.
The cache you seeek is hidden just a short drive away from this historical marker. Substitute numbers from the monument into the following Coordinates: N 39° 27.ABC W 077° 44.CDB where:
A = the date of Patrick Roy's birth.
B = the date of Patrick Roy's birth MINUS one.
C = the date of Patrick Roy's birth MINUS two.
D = the fourth digit in the year of Patrick Roy's birth.
The container you seek is a large sized pill bottle containing a few logsheet/stashnote combinations but no room for a stylus so be sure to BYOP!
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Bar, gjb, guerr...sbhe.
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